Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27
some cambling sforIsa

Chicago Inter-Ocean.
saThis is my ~forty-seyenth sunma,
in Saratoga" said a Wilmington e.,,'
tleman, who had just lost 500 It ron.
lette in the club, '.and tile tamest !,
the lot for gamblers. Why, Isaw job.
Morrissey and Ben Wood play a fare
game in SO all night. Everybody Ala
had gone. The town clock began =
strike 6, and Morrissey stopped shui.
fling the cards and counted, one. two
three, four, five, six. This is nv last
| deal Wood looked up at him with
tears IN his eyes, although lie Wa
| Sl25, 600 ahead ofthegame, and askaS.
"John. do you think its fair to beat
poor fellow like me in this way?'
1.-THE next day came across Nor.
| rissey on the old United States piazza
and asked him who the greatest pam
bier in the world was. Ben Wood
he answered"
"Oh, yes" said Albert Spencer. athat
was thirty years ago, but what wonld
| you think now if you should sec !
| man bet $4,000 on the turn ~ !
card in baccarat? Frank Huptoos
| did that not two months ago in Ns..
| York at the Carlton Club. Why. ths,
play there for the biggest stakes /,
the world. Yes, he beats them All
and he's a fine-looking fellow. foo.
stands six feet four inches. with INNS.
cles like an athlete, bright blue ewes
brown hair, and the graces of a Ches.
ter6eld. But you should see him ON
a lark My, but he makes .tbincs
move. He fills the pockets of he
| oyercoat with silver, and throwsit
broadcast like a farmer sowing his
grain. / saw him one night in Kostar
Il Bial's, on Twenty-third street, treat
500. fellows to champagne, and tha
next day he told me that after payino
| for 200 bottles he received anothae
bill for 108, said to have been opened
the same night, I've seer him Weld
to Bacchus and throw his money AZ
the waters as Thought were corn and
they chickens"
When asked about European gam.
bling Spencer said:
"Oh, / have seer every type. But
there goes a gentleman" pointing Ia
ex-Sheriff G'Brien, of New YORK
"whose brother Larry broke the bank
at Baden Baden twice in one evening
In 1879, the last year gambling WIS a.
lowed in Germany, Baden Baden was
as full OF people as Saratoga is now.
Larry was a good Chap, big, hearted
and brave. ready to give the last cent
| to any one Who needed it more than
he. A child could lead him, but 4
bully or fighter found him a demon to
deal with. When / saw him at the
German Spa he may have been %.
but looked II. i shall never forget
the look NJ. Blanck gave him wien
he was pointed out as the American
who wanted to play an unlimited
game against the bank. The sum the
bank put up was $40, 900, with sI00
the limit. O'Brien told General
Van Aliens son. now livinsa Newport.
that he wanted to bet without limit.
and to tell the French fellow so. Van
| Allen explained the case. and presented
Larry. The game commenced. and
in half an hour 0'Brien broke the
bank, his bets being $1,000 each.
Larry rolled the $50. 900 winnings in
to his pockets, and for all of fifteen
minutes the proprietors sat staring at
him. At the end of that time another
$40, 900 bank was announced by the
| dealer, and at it Larry bncked. Il
succunibed to his luck in less time than
the first had been won. NJ. Blanck
was dumfounded, and when ha an
phatically refused to open another IN
limited game, the big crowd left the
house, and for many days Larry was
the lion OF the town, as 90 such luck
had been known since a Russian, years
before, had broke up the place